The Role of the United Nations in Training National Technical Personnel for the Accelerated Industralization of the Developing Countries

A/RES/1824(XVII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

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6 subjects

Industrial Development Industrialization National Professional Staff Skilled Workers Technical Cooperation Technical Training

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Considers it desirable to intensify the work of the Committee for Industrial Development with regard to assistance to the developing countries in training national technical personnel, so that further concrete measures within the framework of the United Nations system and recommendations for the Governments

concerned may be elaborated in this field;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the Governments of Member States and in consultation with the Technical Assistance Board, the Special Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Labour Organisation and the other specialized agencies, to prepare a report, which would include :

An estimate of the requirements of the developing countries, whenever possible according to their development plans, for technical personnel of the intermediate and higher levels and an estimate of the available possibilities for training such personnel in those countries, using, inter alia. the methodology and techniques for assessing those requirements the formulation of which is envisaged in the programme of work in the field of industrialization of the Committee for Industrial Development;

( b) Information concerning methods of training national technical personnel in various countries, taking into account the experience of States with different social and economic systems ;

( c) Information concerning the progress being made in the training of technical personnel for the developing countries in the industrially advanced countries, and the methods employed ;

( d) Proposals for measures within the United Nations system and recommendations to the Governments concerned with regard to intensifying the training, and improving the facilities for the training, of national intermediate and higher technical personnel in the developing countries and, where appropriate, on an intra-regional basis;

Invites the Committee for Industrial Development to give special consideration at its forthcoming sessions to the need for intensifying the training of technical personnel in the process of industrialization, and to assist the Secretary-General in preparing the above-mentioned report;

Invites the Economic and Social Council to consider the Secretary-General's report and the results of the discussion thereof in the Committee for Industrial Development, and to submit to the General Assembly, at its nineteenth session, for consideration within the framework of the problems of industrialization, a progress report on the implementation of the proposals and recommendations approved by the Council; General Assembly-Seventeenth SeHion

Urges the United Nations organs which carry out the programmes of technical assistance, the regional economic commissions and the specialized agencies

concerned to increase their efforts in developing both national and regional projects :-timed at promoting the training of national technical personnel for industry;

Urges ::Vlember States to develop their educational systems to meet the needs of industri:1lization, particularly as regards the supply of personnel at the secondary, technical and higher levels.

1197 th pl cnary meetina,

18 Deceml1er 1962.

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